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- The Marine Week program set up a Vietnam Veterans

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pinning ceremony.

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The pinning ceremony is basically the Marines commemorating

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^the Vietnam Veterans with pinning them with a lapel pin

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from the Vietnam Veterans Commission which honors them

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for their service.

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The Marines were extremely honored to put this wall up.

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They knew how much this means to the veterans

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of the city of Detroit.

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They know that this is one way to pay back

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to those Vietnam Veterans from past.

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- What happened here today was a very enlightening

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and rewarding experience because I have friends

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that I went to high school with whose names

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are on the wall.

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I get very touched emotionally because these are people

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I grew up with and went to school with.

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^Vietnam Veterans, they served the nation,

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^they put their lives on the line,

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they made a sacrifice.

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Some made the ultimate sacrifice.

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We deserve the recognition.

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It felt like it was receiving a thank you for my service.

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Just a great experience just to know that we're being

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honored and being recognized.

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When I joined the service I was only 18.

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Vietnam I was 19, putting your life on the line

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for your country.

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Events like these it pulls us all together

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because we're serving this nation.

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If we didn't do this we wouldn't have the freedoms

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that we enjoy today.